There are stories where you can look for the possibility of "true love" in a deeply unequal system -- Jefferson and Hemings isn't one though
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Jefferson had every opportunity to legally free Hemings if he really wanted to and never did -- that would've been the bare minimum
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Jefferson never treated Hemings publicly as an equal and this was actually used to argue against their relationship existing
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If I remember right Abigail Adams worried about her as a young girl in his house when he was in France, like she got a weird vibe
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It seems pretty clear Jefferson used Hemings as a proxy for his dead wife and to me that's the opposite of romance
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